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At first glance 56 years old Angelo Izzo does not seem your classical stereotype of a heart breaker:

Not so important maybe is that he is fat, bald and not really the latin lover type, also the fact that he is engaged in neofascist organisations or that he currently is behind bars is not the big obstacle. The real problem is that he has three cruel violations and assasinations of women - one of them only 14 years old - on his back and currently faces life long prison again...

Under those circumstances, who in his sane mind would fall in love with the man?

Well, a 53 years old ladie, good looking, divorced and mother of a 15 yrs old son, journalist by profession (director of the recently discontinued online paper www.cominiciaitalia.net), ex speaker of the Italian Minister of Communications, ex special correspondent of "Il Giornale" and author of two books.

Her name is Donatella Papi, and here she is: Fervently in love with the "Monster of Circeo", a name Izzo picked up when in 1975 he commited one of his rape murders in that region. There, together with two friends, he kidnapped two 19 year old girls that they raped and tortured during one whole day and one night. They then killed one of them, the other one survived the attempt by pure chance. Izzo was sentenced to life long prison, and after 30 years behind bars he got provisional liberty under vigilance. Bad moment, out of jail he used the day to kill a mother and her 14 years old daughter, after also raping and torturing both before.

Nothing of this seems to worry Mrs. Papi, she is so much in love that she recently wrote a card to the director of the prison that holds Izzo to ask permission to see him "...with the prupose of negotiating with him the necessary steps and authorizatioins to marry him inside jail".

Izzo confirms the news: "Lately we have established a lasting letter friendship and have found out that we have many things in common: Like the old Samurais, we have the burning desire to conserve the highest values of compassion, beauty and the highest moral ideals and principles. It is possible that we are going to marry, we have talked about it and made plans accordingly, Donatella is a beatuiful, intelligent and sensitive woman".

Whole Italy is perplexed and cannot understand how someone like Papi could wish to marry someone who as raped and killed three women.

The groom himself explains it: "My presumable hostility against women is all an invention of journalists and criminologists. It is true that in a time long past I commited crimes of a certain type, but you cannot classify them as gender violence". According to him those crimes were "...episodes related to an erroneous way of living".

Rattler(this post is based on a fairly free translation of large parts of an article by Irene Hernandez Velasco in "El Mundo" of NOV 20, 2009)